Re: [PATCH - todo] Changes to e-mailed patch handling in v1.5.0

From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Jan 18, 2007, 15:13 UTC
Message-ID: <00691964-B639-4EEA-968D-A6BB65DC3DC8@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <200701180818.12372.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Jan 18, 2007, at 3:18 AM, Andy Parkins wrote:

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> On Wednesday 2007 January 17 23:06, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I am neutral about changing the default suffix from .txt to .patch;
>> comments?
>
> I'm in favour.  The extension indicates file type, and gives  
> guidance on the
> tool that can read it. Though .patch is stored in text it's more  
> than that
> (c.f. .html) - the text inside it has meaning beyond just the text.
>
> To me, .txt would implies that the file format is in human-language  
> format
> (i.e. words, sentences, and paragraphs).

Ditto.

Also, Vim nicely detects the From <SHA1> line at the top and thinks that it's an mbox file. With the patch extension it ignores that and gives me my diff coloring again.

~~ Brian